/u/barlie7's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States.
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[WP] 3 weeks ago, the government issued a warning to stay inside for a week due to an “international threat”. You don’t own a house, and we’re forced to stay outside. It’s been 3 weeks. No one has come out yet.
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[WP] “Dad, why aren’t we allowed to go outside?” your daughter asks one day. But she already knows. There is no outside anymore.
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[WP] There is an entire society of people who locked themselves underground for hundreds of years, expecting a nuclear war. After centuries, they come out to discover the society has thrived without them.
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[WP] You work in a government laboratory. Through extensive experimentation, you finally manage to give yourself super powers: you can go through walls. Immediately after, you fall through the floor, and discover the governments best kept secret.
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[WP] You buy one way tickets to a planet far away to colonize it along with 1000 others. As you wake up from cryo-sleep, you and the other passengers find yourself still sitting on earth, 5000 years later. There is no sign of life, except for the small bugs crawling everywhere.
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[WP] You take a nap on the train. When you wake up, everyone is gone. Except the old man sitting next to you.
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[WP] When you were a child, your whole family died in the fire. One day, as you were looking through photos of them, you notice that in each and every picture, one man is there. Standing, watching. But you know him.
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[WP] You were hired to cut down a tree in someone’s back yard. However, the entire tree is hollow, and there is a decaying body at the bottom. The problem is, the police have yet to figure out how they got into the tree.
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